{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/concession-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-51A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/concession-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-51A.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2016/65",
  "legislation_title": "The Concession Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/concession-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/51A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "51A",
  "heading": "Duty owed to economic operators from GPA parties",
  "text": "(1) The duty owed in accordance with regulation 51(1) (duty owed to economic operators, including those from countries with whom the EU has a relevant international agreement other than the GPA) is a duty owed also to an economic operator from a GPA party, but only where the agreement applies to the procurement concerned.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the GPA applies to a procurement if—\n(a) the procurement may result in the award of a contract of any description; and\n(b) at the relevant time—\n(i) a GPA party has agreed with the United Kingdom that the GPA shall apply to a contract of that description; and\n(ii) the economic operator is from that GPA party.\n(3) In this regulation, “relevant time” means the date on which the contracting entity submitted a concession notice in respect of the concession contract to the UK e-notification service or would have done so if it had been required by these Regulations to do so.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 51A inserted (11.6.2021) by The Public Procurement (Agreement on Government Procurement) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/573), regs. 1(1), 7(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 51A(3) substituted (16.8.2021) by The Public Procurement (Agreement on Government Procurement) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/872), regs. 1(1), 7(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/65/regulation/51A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:18.459135+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}